MO'S WORLDWIDE FAMILY NEWSLETTER NO.23!           DO 317C         10/74
WAITING FOR THE LORD'S ANSWERS!

         1. The Lord does not always answer us right away, which sometimes tests our faith & draws us closer to Him in the Spirit as we are driven to His Word to try to find some answers from what He has already said while waiting for more direct & specific answers in prayer. However, I notice that some of the PROPHETS had the same problem with the LORD & some of their KINGS had the same problems with the PROPHETS!
         2. SO LEARNING PATIENCE SEEMS TO BE ONE OF GOD'S MOST FREQUENT LESSONS yet one of our own rarest virtues, as it really tests our faith & drives us to the Lord & His Word, to Whom & which we might not otherwise give so much time & attention. So at least it's one way God has of getting our attention while we're waiting for His direct answers or trying to find them in His PAST Words!--Amen?
         3. I'M SORRY THAT DUE TO OUR RATHER SLOW & INDIRECT MEANS OF COMMUNICATION AT PRESENT THIS MUST BE SO, but perhaps this is good for us all & drives us both more urgently to the Lord & His Word for more immediate & faster answers!--And we have gotten them, thank the Lord, as we have followed His immediate & direct leadings, even though our own communications have been so slow.
         4. HIS ANSWERS ARE ALWAYS A JUMP AHEAD & FORESEEING THE FUTURE, so that often, as you've noticed, He has already raised some of your questions in my own heart even before I have received them from you, & frequently I have given you His replies already even before I have received your letters asking for them, the questions & answers actually crossing each other in the mails! PTL!
         5. ISN'T HE WONDERFUL! HE KNOWS THE RIGHT ANSWERS TO EVERYTHING & IS ALWAYS AHEAD OF US, & where & "when He PUTTETH FORTH HIS SHEEP, He goeth BEFORE them!"--Jn.10:4. Hallelujah! Praise the Lord! God bless you for your nearness to Him so that He is able to lead you without my immediate physical presence! As outlined in "I Gotta Split!", it is obvious that He has deliberately done this so that I can be in closer communication with HIM to get His more BASIC & GENERAL guidelines to pass on to all of you throughout the whole World, while YOU YOURSELVES personally & LOCALLY make your own immediate decisions regarding your own tending of the tables, the many DETAILS of which I cannot & should not become too closely involved. PTL!

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         6. May we constantly make the spread of the Message our primary motive for our moves, although He always seems to have to give us a little extra push to make us do it when we start letting the roots grow down, get too settled & comfortable & therefore slow down our progress in going into ALL the World to preach His loving News! PTL?
         7. BECAUSE WE IGNORE HIS WARNINGS TO MAKE ADVANCE PREPARATIONS TO MAKE IT EASIER, we're always caught in the middle of a dilemma at the last minute & have to muddle quickly through in a big mess, leaving much behind & dropping more along the way & try to hurry & scurry as fast as we can to get out quickly before it's too late to get out at all or organisedly!

LETTING PEOPLE GOVERN THEMSELVES!

         8. YOU MAY BE SURPRISED HOW WELL THE PEOPLE CAN GOVERN THEMSELVES THROUGH THEIR OWN CHOSEN REPRESENTATIVES IF YOU GIVE THEM A CHANCE & STOP MEDDLING IN THEIR MATTERS OF TENDING THEIR OWN TABLES OF WHICH THEY SHOULD BE THE BEST JUDGES & MORE RESPONSIBLE, LIKE THE DEACONS IN ACTS 6, AS LONG AS THEY GET THE JOB DONE & DELIVER THE GOODS!
         9. OF COURSE, IF THEY FAIL TO PRODUCE, SOMEBODY'S GOTTA STEP IN & LET'M KNOW ABOUT IT & needle them to do something about it, which is usually the top executive's job, such as your departmental head etc. As long as they're running smoothly & producing the necessary work, please try to leave them alone unless they really need help & could use a few suggestions for improvement or are downright falling down on the job, in which case you might have to butt in, shake'm up or even take'm over! Amen?

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